A suggestion - a new TFM section

Scott Hopwood (shopwood@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au)
Thu, 17 Nov 1994 13:16:09 +1000 (EST)

As all the first year students learn OOP, and OOP is full of silly terms
what mean even siller things, we make a new section in TFM along the
lines of "OO terminology - a less useful guide". With definitions along
the lines of the following.

Inheritance: You are standing in line next to an idiot. A man comes up to
you and gives you a bird, you give it webed feet and call it a
penguin. The idiot pickes up a parrot rips off its wings
and gives it scuba gear.

polymorphism: A man gives you a bag with the word "CANINE" written on it.
You tell the bag to go hunt some deer, and the poodle
shits itself and runs up a tree.

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Scott Hopwood shopwood@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au

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A spinning bone,
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